<p>5 Big Wishes For Big Data Deployments(click image for larger view and for slideshow)Software AG sees a big opportunity brewing in the Industrial Internet, and on Monday it introduced Terracotta Universal Messaging as a data transport designed to power a broad range of high-speed, big data applications.</p><p>Messaging systems have traditionally solved the problem of fanning out data from a small number of systems that generate information and delivering it to the many applications that draw on that data. Big data and promising developments such as the Industrial Internet promise to turn that model on its head.More Software InsightsWebcasts More &gt;&gt;White Papers More &gt;&gt;Reports More &gt;&gt;</p><p>"When you have potentially thousands of sensors, devices and systems creating data, you have the problem of fanning data in to a central system for analysis and storage," said Eddie McDaid, managing director of Universal Messaging at Software AG's Terracotta business unit, in an interview with InformationWeek.</p><p>Terracotta Universal Messaging is high-capacity, real-time data-streaming transport, and it supports a range of languages, clients and protocols for a range of applications, devices and data types so it can live up to its "Universal" name. As for the centralized storage, that component is Terracotta BigMemory, the in-memory grid database Software AG acquired in 2011.</p><p><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/software/information-management/software-ag-takes-messaging-to-industria/240157336">Keep reading...</a></p>